Photography by RACHAEL TALIBART

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For so work the honey bees

For so work the honey bees,
Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king, and officers of sorts,
Where some like magistrates correct at home;
Others like merchants venture trade abroad;
Others like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer’s velvet buds,
Which pillage they with merry march bring home
To the tent-royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold,
The civil citizens kneading up the honey,
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,
The sad-ey’d justice, with his surly hum,
Delivering o’er to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone.

I was thrilled to bits to find you, as well! Did you know that there are other OU CW survivors around as well. Susanne Lockie (A Sonsie Lass) and Linda Cosgriff (The Laughing Housewife and also I’m Not Averse), and Harry Nicholson all blog on WP